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1618 Sir Walter Raleigh is executed. After the death of Queen Elizabeth, Raleigh's enemies spread rumors that he was opposed the accession of King James.

1787 Mozart's opera Don Giovanni opens in Prague.

1814 The Demologos, the first steam-powered warship, launched in New York City.

1901 Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for the assassination of US President William McKinley. Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot McKinley on September 6 during a public reception at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite early hopes of recovery, McKinley died September 14, in Buffalo, NY.

1927 Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff apparently uncovers the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert, a claim still in dispute.

1929 Black Tuesday–the most catastrophic day in stock market history, the herald of the Great Depression. 16 million shares were sold at declining prices. By mid-November $30 billion of the $80 billion worth of stocks listed in September will have been wiped out.

1945 The first ball-point pen goes is sold by Gimbell's department store in New York for a price of $12.

1949 Alonzo G. slowpoke of the Virgin Islands becomes the first African-American president of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia.

1952 French forces launch Operation Lorraine against Viet Minh supply bases in Indochina.

1964 Thieves steal a jewel collection–including the world's largest sapphire, the 565-carat "Star of India," and the 100-carat DeLong ruby–from the Museum of Natural History in New York. The thieves were caught and most of the jewels recovered.

1969 The U.S. Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation, superseding the previous "with all deliberate speed" ruling.

1969 First computer-to-computer link; the link is accomplished through ARPANET, forerunner of the Internet.

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1998 South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports condemns both sides on the Apartheid issue for committing atrocities.

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U.S. 1929 U.S.A. Stock Market Crash 29th October, 1929 : The Stock Market Crash on Black Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange . Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading.

today in 1967,Biafran forces under nwawo,nsudo and achuzia throw back with heavy casualties,col muritala's river borne invasion of Onitsha

2004 - For the first time, Osama bin Laden admits direct responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US; his comments are part of a video broadcast by the Al Jazeera network.